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Example sentences for: pendulum

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The pendulum swung away from those types of investigations during the 1980s and 1990s, though the FBI maintained an active counterintelligence function and was the lead agency for the investigation of foreign terrorist groups operating inside the United States.
Although the pendulum swung back after Angleton's forced retirement, it did not go very far.
Doctors used to dictate treatment, but in the past decade the pendulum has swung too far toward patient autonomy.
The great ones have almost no movement in their arms, wrists, and hands other than the gentlest of pendulum swings.
First, of course, came Frank Sinatra, his death the beau ideal of an on-time departure, given his image's pendulum swing over the last three decades from ultracool to camp to ultracool once more.